To head off such a disaster, state party officials are trying to organize a drive to increase Democratic turnout.

The high Democratic turnout was attributed to several factors:

"Many people had assumed that there would be an increase in Democratic turnout in these states because of the presidential race."

He argued that doing this might encourage Democratic turnout.

In contrast, Democratic turnout was the second-lowest in 40 years.

Democratic turnout rose marginally, by nine-tenths of a percentage point.

The updated forecast suggests it will rain across the entire state, suppressing Democratic turnout too.

The African-American vote is expected to be 40 to 50 percent of the Democratic turnout.

And they could make the difference in a presumably low Democratic turnout.

The Democratic turnout may be even smaller this year.